1. We had heard it is pretty.
2. They have really good arancini there. Arancini is basically a fried ball of rice with something like mozarella in the middle of it. They are pretty much amazing. This is a really popular thing in Naples, and the best ones are without a doubt found there, but apparently you could find some of the best ones in Rome in Piazza Bologna.
3. We really did not have anything else to do. Okay that is not true, we had lots to do, but decided that Thursday was a good day for Piazza Bologna.
We wandered around the Piazza and the streets that are all around it. We walked past cafes and pizzerias hoping to find one that caught our eye. Finally, we walked past this one Bar that looked like it had pastries, coffee, arancini, and pizza. Pretty much your one stop shop for yummy food. This place also had this...
I know what you are thinking....the picture quality is terrible, and wait a second, is that Barak Obama eating one of those cakes? Well you are right; both of those things are true. Here is a closer look at the sign for "Pasticciotti Obama."
There Barak is, waving and encouraging us to spend 1.50 euros on these little chocolate cakes. Now my friend and I were utterly bewildered as to why Barak Obama's face was on these cakes. I mean, this was not a particularly touristy area. So we asked one of the guys working there why our President's face was on cake, all the while figuring we would get some kind of political critic on America or something.
Wrong.
So.
Wrong.
The guy's response to our question, I kid you not, was "because the cakes are the color of his skin." My jaw dropped to the ground, and I said, "are you kidding." And he looked at me and said "no, it's true." After that we did not really feel it was appropriate to eat at that bakery. In fact, we ran away about as quickly as we possibly could. No doubt definitely one of the strangest, and most inappropriate experiences I have had in Italy, and one I will not soon forget.
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